Top 10 positives
Apr 15, 2020
By: Tammy T. Jelinek
Top 10 positives
I know, I know – really positives? Right now can’t we just all be miserable as we ride this out?!?!
Please hear me out. I was in a pretty nasty motorcycle accident and hospitalized for five days, then I had to re-learn to walk. It was hard. Not just physically, but mentally too. It was hard not to feel sorry for myself – which I am convinced would have slowed down my healing process. So, on one of my particularly horrible days, I MADE myself find 10 things about the accident that were positive. And you know what – I was able to do it. And it helped.
That’s my goal, identify 10 positives in an event that I have little to no control over:
- I am not alone. Family, friends, colleagues, clients – we are all going through this journey (in some way, shape or form).
- I can work from home, full-time and be productive. I just don’t want to do it. In my future, I will not be the one raising my hand for the home-office option.
- We are in a brand-new neighborhood and we have families (most with two dogs) all over the neighborhood.
- Children are still playing outside and now the adults are too. It’s fun to watch from the home-office window.
- We participated in a few area-wide initiatives (the happy heart hunting, Wisconsin’s Saturday at 3 p.m. jump-around, etc.) that normally we would have been too busy to participate.
- We were able to move in, unpack, hang pictures, etc. in a pretty timely manner. My travel schedule would have slowed down that process.
- There are more catch-up calls with team members than ever before. We are really getting to know our coast-to-coast team members.
- Work initiatives that we were “going to do in the future” have now become a priority and it’s exciting.
- We are still able to help others even when we are disconnected from them physically.
- This will end. We will get to decide what we want about it to end; and maybe what we want to stay the same.
What are your top 10 positives in this event? Please share a few, or all, of them.